Southport pupils have embraced characters from historic literature to help them study and preform for children across the town.

Pete Scholes, Curriculum Leader for Performing Arts at Southport College said "Our students take the show on the road to a number of primary and secondary schools as a part of their course and have done for the last 25 years.

"Our aim is to help visualise some of the classic texts that secondary schools are studying such as King Lear, Lord of the Flies and Frankenstein. The productions in the primary schools focus on very different issues such as equality and diversity in society.

"The students find the whole experience extremely rewarding and we hope we can continue to do this for another quarter of a century."